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Karolinska ‘best university in Sweden’

Stockholm medical university Karolinska Institutet has been named the best university in Sweden by a new international survey. The study, by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ranks KI as the 51st best higher education institution in the world.

Published: 15 August 2008 08:26 CEST
Karolinska 'best university in Sweden'

Karolinska Institutet comes second in the Nordic region after 45th-placed Copenhagen University. The next highest-ranking university in Sweden is Uppsala, at 71st place, followed by Stockholm in 86th place. Lund University was in 97th place.

The Chinese study ranks universities based on how often researchers are cited in peer-reviewed journals and how many Nobel Prizes researchers have won. The survey has been criticised in the past for favouring universities with strength in the natural sciences.

The international list was topped by Harvard. Eight out of the top ten universities were in the United States. The top non-American university was Cambridge, in fourth place. The highest-ranked institution in a non-English speaking country was the university of Tokyo, in nineteenth place.

ISLAM

Police probe opened after poster campaign against ‘Islamophobic’ lecturers at French university

The French government condemned on Monday a student protest campaign targeting two university professors accused of Islamophobia, saying it could put the lecturers in danger.

Published: 8 March 2021 13:35 CET
Police probe opened after poster campaign against 'Islamophobic' lecturers at French university
Illustration photo: Justin Tallis/AFP

Student groups plastered posters last week on the walls of a leading political science faculty in Grenoble that likened the professors to “fascists” and named them both in a campaign backed by the UNEF student union.

Junior interior minister Marlene Schiappa said the posters and social media comments recalled the online harassment of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty last October, who was beheaded in public after being denounced online for offending Muslims.

“These are really odious acts after what happened with the decapitation of Samuel Paty who was smeared in the same way on social networks,” she said on the BFM news channel. “We can’t put up with this type of thing.”

“When something is viewed as racist or discriminatory, there’s a hierarchy where you can report these types of issues, which will speak to the professor and take action if anything is proven,” Schiappa said.

Sciences Po university, which runs the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Grenoble in eastern France, also condemned the campaign on Monday and has filed a criminal complaint.

An investigation has been opened into slander and property damage after the posters saying “Fascists in our lecture halls. Islamophobia kills” were found on the walls of the faculty.

One of the professors is in charge of a course called “Islam and Muslims in contemporary France” while the other is a lecturer in German who has taught at the faculty for 25 years.

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